> Now, we have 25 mile RACES??? Hey, don't tell me AERC says they are NOT > races, cause everybody (well many) treats them as such. > > I say, keep LD, but put a minimum time for completion...say 4 hours > (dependant on terrain? or is that asking too much?). It is a RARE horse/rider > who is not ready for 50 but IS ready for 8 to 10 mph.
A nice approach for the 25 at a recent ride (Tule Blues) was to take
completion time as the time at which pulse criteria was met at the end
of the ride.